This morning, we were rather surprised to see the above sight out of the bedroom window; I suppose that we should have listened to the forecast, really. The snow melted quickly across the region, however Dorset’s Isle of Purbeck seems to have possessed some form of microclimate as the snow kept on falling hereabouts.
Being subject to a mild Atlantic climate, snow is usually a rare and short-lived thing here on the English Channel. We haven’t seen anything like this much of the white stuff since we moved to the coast in 1994, so we were rather excited! As the sun sank into the west, we dashed up Swyre Head to catch a glimpse of the snow meeting the ocean.
And no, at no point did we even consider going paddling … too cold for wimps like us!
All I can say is you’re a very lucky manto live in such a great area. I’m exceedingly envious.
Wow! Lovely photos. Made me feel quite warm and slushy inside
Some nice photos. I am trying to work out where the break is in the 4th picture down!
Awesome photos Mark, really something! Our school shut for 2 days and I was stupid enough to go for a short paddle much to the astonishment of the handful of people sat in their cars at Lepe. Bloody stupid idea really as it was freezing
Well, you can thank Mother Nature for laying on that display. We were just lucky to be there to see it.
The ‘surf break’ is just a few inches of swell breaking over the shallow ledges below Swyre Head – these reefs extend all the way between Chapman’s Pool and Kimmeridge.
Cheers,
Mark
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